Brian De Palma Quotes

• But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn’t work in contemporary storytelling because we don’t live in that world anymore.

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• And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They’re a lot of fun, they’re sexy, they’re manipulative, they’re dangerous.

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• I don’t see scarey films. I certainly wouldn’t go see my films.

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• And we’ve become very doubtful of our information sources, because they’re all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

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• However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.

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• However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

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• I guess what’s most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don’t seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.

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• Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he’s so brilliant.

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• I do like directing other people’s material.

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• I hadn’t done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.

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• I mean, I don’t mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it’s going to be used in some way.

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• I’ve dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story.

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• It’s always great when you discover someone.

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• So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it’s one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

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• I’ve been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

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• I’ve been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

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• It’s always great to discover a new star of tomorrow.

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• That’s what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.

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• The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.

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• The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don’t give the students an idea of what’s happening.

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Brian De Palma (28)

Birth:	11th September, 1940
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Film Director, Screenwriter

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Brian De Palma was born in Newark, New Jersey. He is an American film director and screenwriter. In a career spanning over 40 years, he is probably best known for his suspense and crime thriller films. He directed successful and popular films such as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito's Way, and Mission: Impossible.  When he was in high school, he built computers. He won a regional science-fair prize for a project titled "An Analog Computer to Solve Differential Equations".

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